Tuesday 31
July 2007, San José, Costa
Rica
All Feet
Lead To Cartago!
Due to the long weekend the "romeria" -
annual walk - to Cartago came early this
year, as tens of thousands made the
annual pilgrimage ahead of the
traditional August 2.
Racsa Announced
Expansion Of WiMax
Service
Racsa, the state
monopoly on internet,
has announced that it
will extend its "WiMax"
program to all of san
José, allowing properly
equipped laptops, PDA's
and cell phones wireless
broadband access to the
internet.
Government
Urged to Fess Up TLC
Survey
The opposition to the
Tratado de Libre
Comercio (TLC) -
the Central America Free
Trade
Agreement-Dominican
Republic (CAFTA-DR)-
demanded the Costa Rican
government publish
results of a poll it
commissioned about the
level of public support
for the agreement.
Costa Ricans
Prefer Quick Lose Weight Methods Instead
of Exercise and Diet
A recent study shows that almost half of
all Costa Ricans suffer from obesity and
the reason why many Costa Ricans should
try to lose a few pounds.
Mandarin Oriental to
Open Luxury Resort and
Residences in Costa Rica
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Group last week
announced that it will
manage a new luxurious
beach resort and branded
Residences at Playa
Manzanillo, in
Guanacaste, on Costa
Rica’s northern Pacific
coast.
Nicaragua Begins AIDS
Awareness Campaign
The president of
Nicaragua's AIDS-HIV
Association, Arely Cano,
announced a new campaign
on Monday against the
epidemic to encourage
people to protect
themselves and undergo
tests.
Posada Case Reappears in
Panama
The dark procedure that
allowed the release of
terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles, who served
here an eight-year
sentence for conspiring
to assassinate President
Fidel Castro, recaptured
Monday Panamanians'
attention.
Son of Guatemalan
Candidate Murdered
Violence during the
ongoing election
campaign is escalating
in Guatemala, where
Carlos Enrique Mijangos,
the son of Daniel
Mijangos, who is running
for the mayor"s office
for the Patriotic Party
in the municipality of
Palencia, was murdered.
Guatemalan Corn Cost
up 29 Percent
The price of Guatemalan
corn internal market has
raised 29 percent this
year, according to
statistics of the
Ministry of Agriculture,
Cattle and Food
published here on
Monday.
Argentina, Mexico sign
strategic co-op
agreement
Visiting Argentine
President Nestor
Kirchner and his Mexican
counterpart Felipe
Calderon on Monday
signed a strategic
agreement to boost
bilateral cooperation in
a wide-ranging of
fields.
CUBA:
Gradual Changes But No
Surprises, A Year On
A year after the
announcement that
changed life in Cuba in
the blink of an eye,
this Caribbean island
nation continues to
defy, as it has so often
in the past,
expectations about the
present and future of
its socialist system.
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